Of all the lan centers, and net cafes I've seen, none of them have had a true lounge atmosphere. I think if a place opened with some decent sized screens and some way of dealing with sound without having people need headphones, and some comfortable furiture (think leather couches), AND served drinks, it would be successful.
Granted, you'd need to make sure you got the right types of people in there in the beginning to set the pace (sorry, but this means beautiful models and their boy toys, not 30yrold geeks with shirts that are too small and stained), it could become a real hotspot now that society is easing up its views on videogames.
I hope you forwarded this to the Feds. If it was regular spam, that would be one thing, but this is for child porn, and nothing gets the feds moving like underage porn.
Why couldn't they just hire the Desert Combat team and install a slimmed down version of BF1942 with DC into the handhelds? They've had Arabic phrases like that since their.6 release!
It appears that while Electronic Arts might have been able to fend them off with their vast arsenal of WW2-era, Desert Storm, and Star Wars Universe technology, it appears that they were unable to mount a successful defense because everybody was camping the fucking planes and helicopters.
When we attempted to contact a diplomat from EA, his response was, "Those base-camping fucktard fagg0ts. They even parked a fucking tank in our hangar, how the fuck do they expect us to fight back? That's so fucking unfair, those fucking hacking faggots."
Wow, you really have no clue. I didn't describe Apple's target market as people who don't have ipods or Apple's. I described them as a type of customer using psychographic terminology.
I won't even continue this discussion until you learn some basic marketing skills so you can understand what type of person Apple aims their advertising at.
The problem is that most people have bigger concerns in their life than their privacy. Even if they know about the privacy issues, they will weigh the privacy issues vs. what services/products offered and determine if it is worth it for them.
I personally think one of the big problems is that we don't have a price tag on this information, and the masses have no idea how much their info sells for. If people were very educated about how much their individual pieces of personal information sell for they could see that name+email+IP+address+phone+annoyance caused by spam is not worth a stupid tool bar. The big problem is we have no equation for the annoyance factor, and the data on how much personal information is worth is relatively hidden.
I think if this information were more public, perhaps it might not change peoples views on their privacy, but perhaps efforts might be made to make these people compensate you monetarily for selling your information.
Here's the thing I've always wondered about opting-out. Many places require you to fill in the personal information BEFORE you can opt-out. As in, once you sign up, you can go to your user preferences and then opt-out.
So do they have time to sell your information to anybody else? I always wondered if every time you opt-out, it sends information to their "third party affiliates" about you so the info is transferred to them, which you don't know about and need to opt out of.
" they might even have some $300/hr lawyer on staff"
Yeah, God forbid they have a $300/hr lawyer. Got news for ya, thats about mid range. A high-priced legal firm's lawyers are going to cost a LOT more than that.
You sir are ignorant about business. I suggest you take a GOOD look at all of the marketing data released from Apple. They sure as hell don't have a dual boot system with windows and linux. I think you are a troll, but its possible you're just clueless about what you're talking about.
"if every call it misses on is instantly free, i am sure some drunken frat boys would be calling all night farting into the phone just to giggle at the results. or maybe not."
What makes you think.99 will stop them when they're drunk?
While I'm sure the service is great in the UK for clubs, because you guys have a much larger market for electronic music, I'm not so sure it will be the same in the states. I mean given our corporations, one would figure they would only limit the service to identifying the latest Top 40, and everything else would give you a Top 40 recommendation when it couldn't find anything for you.
You bring up an interesting point with the eblocks instead of technic. I have wondered lately if our society has made too drastic a turn to teaching people electronics. I mean, its all well and good that society becomes more competent with them so don't get me wrong.
Its just......sometimes I feel as if we often replace mechanical knowledge with electronic.
There will always be mechanically inclined people in this world, and I understand there are people who are both mechanicaly and electronically inclined, but has society as a whole in America changed to be more focused on electronics? Is this a good thing?
Whilst searching for free mp3s on Google, and making sure to type in -price -shop -store -cart -cost -deal, the first result that turns up is inevitably this site called Negativebeats. They have another version called Positivebeats with no real noticeable difference aside from colorscheme.
Ok, great, so they have the mp3 I want, and its free. Oh, whats this? I need to install a plugin to get it? Nope, sorry, never going to your site again. There is absolutely no reason I should have to install a plugin to get an mp3, aside from the website wanting to sell my data to people.
I completely agree. First, you have someone like Real who has a HORRIBLE image with tech-savvy people. Anybody who knows much about computers knows to stay the hell away from Real...usually cuz they can't find the Free Player in the first place.
Now, look at Apple's target market. They aim at the tech-savvy, trendy people, and those people are usually knowledgeable enough to know about Real. Why WOULD Steve want to associate his company with them?
The only thing I thought was bad was the way he worded it. Yeah I got a kick out of it, but he has to realize that while there is a huge gap between #1 and #2 NOW, if they pair up with M$, it is very possible that through sheer brute force they could become #1, or certainly much closer. I think Jobs' comment was a bit short-sighted I guess.
Exactly, first thing I thought was "how big is mine, and how could I upgrade?" While long term memory storage may be a ways off (like the kind in Johnny Pneumonic), but this looks much more feasible in the short term. God, just wait though till parents get their hands on this. Think kids have pressure to get into school now and be the absolute brightest? You ain't seen nothing till you see a child lugging around a briefcase everywhere and when asked to explain he says "its an upgrade for my brain cache".
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Granted, you'd need to make sure you got the right types of people in there in the beginning to set the pace (sorry, but this means beautiful models and their boy toys, not 30yrold geeks with shirts that are too small and stained), it could become a real hotspot now that society is easing up its views on videogames.
I think you mispelled "arousing". And for the second part....Japan is WAY ahead of us on this one.
Ah Michael, your puny attempts at getting us to RTFA will fail you. It is futile, FUTILE I SAY!
When we attempted to contact a diplomat from EA, his response was, "Those base-camping fucktard fagg0ts. They even parked a fucking tank in our hangar, how the fuck do they expect us to fight back? That's so fucking unfair, those fucking hacking faggots."
I won't even continue this discussion until you learn some basic marketing skills so you can understand what type of person Apple aims their advertising at.
I personally think one of the big problems is that we don't have a price tag on this information, and the masses have no idea how much their info sells for. If people were very educated about how much their individual pieces of personal information sell for they could see that name+email+IP+address+phone+annoyance caused by spam is not worth a stupid tool bar. The big problem is we have no equation for the annoyance factor, and the data on how much personal information is worth is relatively hidden.
I think if this information were more public, perhaps it might not change peoples views on their privacy, but perhaps efforts might be made to make these people compensate you monetarily for selling your information.
So do they have time to sell your information to anybody else? I always wondered if every time you opt-out, it sends information to their "third party affiliates" about you so the info is transferred to them, which you don't know about and need to opt out of.
I know you were joking, but seriously, I don't want these guys anywhere NEAR my personal email or my email address.
Yeah, God forbid they have a $300/hr lawyer. Got news for ya, thats about mid range. A high-priced legal firm's lawyers are going to cost a LOT more than that.
What makes you think .99 will stop them when they're drunk?
Its just......sometimes I feel as if we often replace mechanical knowledge with electronic.
There will always be mechanically inclined people in this world, and I understand there are people who are both mechanicaly and electronically inclined, but has society as a whole in America changed to be more focused on electronics? Is this a good thing?
Ok, great, so they have the mp3 I want, and its free. Oh, whats this? I need to install a plugin to get it? Nope, sorry, never going to your site again. There is absolutely no reason I should have to install a plugin to get an mp3, aside from the website wanting to sell my data to people.
Now, look at Apple's target market. They aim at the tech-savvy, trendy people, and those people are usually knowledgeable enough to know about Real. Why WOULD Steve want to associate his company with them?
The only thing I thought was bad was the way he worded it. Yeah I got a kick out of it, but he has to realize that while there is a huge gap between #1 and #2 NOW, if they pair up with M$, it is very possible that through sheer brute force they could become #1, or certainly much closer. I think Jobs' comment was a bit short-sighted I guess.